Terrarum Sans Bitmap v1.14

Overview

This release adds support for Hentaigana (Kana Supplement, Kana Extended-A and Small Kana Extension) and introduces the Typesetter.

The most recent version of Unicode at the time of release is 16.0

List of Changes

• Tighter spaces: a regular space (U+0020) is now 4 pixels wide instead of previous 5
• Lowercase 'g' is now double-storey
• Indian Rupee sign now better matches its Devanagari counterpart
• Better spacing and improved legibility for CJK punctuations
• Completely re-worked Kana: now wider and easier to read
• Support for Hentaigana, a deprecated Japanese writing system
• Early release of the Typesetter

The Typesetter

How to Use

• Invoke with either of the following:

typesetParagraph(SpriteBatch, CharSequence, targetWidth: Int) // will produce justified texts
typesetParagraphRaggedRight(SpriteBatch, CharSequence, targetWidth: Int) // will produce flushed-to-left texts

Known Issues

• The typesetter will fall into an infinite loop if the targetWidth is too narrow
• Words may be hyphenated in unwanted places
  Workaround: adding Soft-Hyphen may mitigate the issue but not reliably
• Typesetter may fail to comply with the line-breaking rules; each country in CJK has slightly different and sometimes conflicting rules, and the typesetter only follows the common rules among them
  Workaround: add Zero-Width Joiner, AFTER the characters that are not allowed at the start of the line, BEFORE the characters that are not allowed at the end of a line
• Typesetting the entire text will take non-negligible processing time
  Workaround: typeset the entire text on a load-time, on a separate FrameBufferObject, then use this FrameBufferObject to draw the text in-game

Terrarum Sans Bitmap v1.13

The most recent version of Unicode at the time of release is 15.1

Fixes and Changes

• Unicode 15.1 glyph changes: U+A798
• Unicode 16 proposed updates for Latin Extended-D
• Old Hangul: Fixed bad Choseong selection on some syllables
• Modern Hangul: Letter shape for Sssanggiyeok (ㄲ) has changed so that 꼬 꼭 꼮 ... 꽆 꽇 are more legible
• Devanagari: positioning of diacritics after II and superscript RA; this fixes the rendering of दार्जिलिंग and गर्मी
• Devanagari: lettershape changes: vowel I, vowel II, ख, थ, य, श
• Fullwidth U+FFE0..U+FFE6 had their code value shifted by one

Full Changelog: v1.12...v1.13

Terrarum Sans Bitmap v1.12

The most recent version of Unicode at the time of release is 15.0

Changes

• [BREAKING CHANGE] Texts are now printed 2px lower so that the text is printed centre to the line height (formerly 20 pixels, now 24; the change itself was introduced in v1.11)
• Minor touchups and fixes for Cyrillic
• Sundanese updated to Unicode 15
• TAMIL AS ABOVE SIGN ௸ is now properly positioned

Full Changelog: v1.11...v1.12

Terrarum Sans Bitmap v1.11

The most recent version of Unicode at the time of release is 14.0

New

• Support for Devanagari
• Support for Tamil
• Support for Sundanese
• Support for Braille
• Support for Control Pictures

Changes

• Line height is now 24 pixels; text positioning is unaffected to ensure compatibility but will be changed in the next release

Full Changelog: v1.10...v1.11

Terrarum Sans Bitmap v1.10 with Demo

New

The most recent version of Unicode at the time of release is 14.0

• Support for Currency Symbols
• Support for Letterlike Symbols
  • Contains Degrees Celsius, Degrees Fahrenheit and Trademark Symbols
• Support for Enclosed Alphanumeric Supplement
  • Contains Copyleft and Creative Commons Symbols
• Support for Phonetic Extensions
  • Fully covers insular scripts from the previous font releases
• Support for Phonetic Extensions Supplement
• Support for Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms
  • Contains Halfwidth Japanese of which the only practical use of them is memeing on the online message boards but included anyway
  • Fully covers fullwidth forms from the previous font releases

Changes

• Font making process is overhauled and thus: Old Spritesheets are no longer compatible with this version! Make sure you update the entire assets directory!
• Improved caching performance
• Letter shapes are tweaked to increase legibility for the following:
  • Basic Latin
  • Latin Extended A/B/C/D
  • Cyrillic
  • Greek
  • Thai
• More kerning pairs
• Removal of global flipY switch

Fixes

• Some Diacritics, notably on Thai script, will be displayed correctly

Full Changelog: v1.9.1...v1.10

Terrarum Sans Bitmap v1.9.1

Changes

• Update to Kotlin 1.4
• Fixed a bug where trying to colour a text by changing the colour of the Gdx SpriteBatch would cause undesirable results

Installation

• Install Version 1.9 first, then overwrite its TerrarumSansBitmap.jar with this one

Terrarum Sans Bitmap v1.9

New

• Kerning support for all the glyphs the font supports
• Latin Extended-D

Changes

• Old Hangul letters are finally fully covered (again)

Terrarum Sans Bitmap v1.8

New

• Support for Hangul Compatibility Jamo. Mainly for chatting support where people often want to say something like ㅋㅋ or ㄷㄷ
• Option to invert the shadow direction to make recessed texts

Changes

• Redesigned Hangul letters
• Adjusted position of some punctuations

Terrarum Sans Bitmap v1.7

New

• Bengali script
• Unicode Superscripts, Subscripts and fractions
• Selective skipping (all the spritesheets--tga file--except the ASCII can be omitted)
• Old Hangul
• Polytonic Greek
• All standard IPA complete with diacritic marks and such
• Glyph caching: frequently requested strings are cached internally. Cache size can be adjusted

Fixes

• Armenian text is more legible
• getWidth() should work properly
• Proper dispose() behaviour, which means there's no memory leak (not sure whether previous version had one but this one definitely don't!)

Terrarum Sans Bitmap v1.6 with Demo

New

• Georgian capital case Mtavruli (added in Unicode 11.0)
• Devanagari script
• Insular script (old english)
• Japanese small Kana for Ainu language

Fixed

• Thai diacritics should display more correctly
• Demo app should run (sorry about that!)

To run the Demo app:

• You'll need to download and unzip both ZIP files
• Scroll up/down to scroll the image
• Input text must be in UTF-8
• Demo app will produce an image named demo.PNG